Shirt placket construction



Oct. 1-1, 1966 s. J. BEDER I $277,496

SHIRT PLACKET CONSTRUCTION Filed 001:. 24, 1965 United States Patent 3,277,496 SHIRT PLACKET CONSTRUCTION Seymour J. Beder, 435 E. 14th St., New York, N.Y. Filed Oct. 24, 1965, Ser. No. 504,668 1 Claim. '(Cl. 2118) This invention relates generally to shirts and more particularly to the front plackets thereof and to an improved method of manufacturing them.

With the advent of greater use of resin-impregnated fibers and fabrics and the heat-setting thereof to produce garments which are highly resistant to wrinkling so that they may be washed without re-pressing, it has become increasingly important that the puckering caused by stitching be avoided. This condition occurs because the thread used, even when composed of almost identical constituents, has expansion and contraction properties which are substantially different from those of the textile material of which the adjacent portions of the garment are composed.

It is therefore among the objects of the present invention to provide a construction in which a true front placket is formed, and yet the use of an extended thread row in the form of a seam or seams is eliminated, thereby allowing the cloth of the adjacent part to be free to take on a proper balanced set to present a smooth, unruflled and unpuckered appearance.

A feature of the invention is that the stitching which normally forms the buttonholes retains the parts in position both before and after the heat-setting step.

Another feature of ths invention is that the free selvedge edge of the garment forming the textile is protected against abrasion, during both washing and wear.

Another object herein lies in the provision of a method of producing this construction in an efiicient manner.

These objects and features, as well as other incidental ends and advantages, will more fully appear in the progress of this disclosure, and be pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing, to which reference Will be made in the specification, similar reference characters have been employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

FIGURE 1 is a front elevational view of a shirt in folded condition, showing an embodiment of the invention.

FIGURE 2 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view as seen from the plane 22 on FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 3 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal sectional view as seen from the plane 33 on FIGURE 1.

FIGURES 4, 5, 6 and 7 are fragmentary perspective views showing a series of stages in the practice of the present method.

FIGURE 8 is an enlarged fragmentary horizontal sectional view comparable to FIGURE 3 but showing a modification.

In accordance with the invention, a shirt 8 manufactured of material 9 having a front surface 11 and a rear surface 13 has first and second front panels 12 and 14, respectively.

The first front panel 12 has a free edge 16 which is folded upon itself at a bight portion 18 to make the first front panel outer portion 20 and the first front panel inner 3,277,496 Patented Oct. 11, 1966 portion 22. Disposed along the panel 12 and spaced from the bight portion 18 are a plurality of buttons 24 arranged in a vertical row. The buttons may be secured in place by the usual stitching 25.

The second front panel 14 has a free or selvedge edge 30, a first fold 32 defining an intermediate panel member 34, and a second fold 36 defining an outer panel member 38 and an inner panel portion 40. The intermediate panel member 34 is interposed between the inner panel portion 40 and the outer panel member 38 in a laminar arrangement, forming a shirt front placket 10. The members 34, 38 and the portion 40 are provided with sets of aligned orifices and stitch means 42 interconnecting the edges of the material about said orifices, forming buttonholes 44, through which the buttons 24 are engageable.

Turning now to the modification shown in FIGURE 8, for the purpose of avoiding needless repetition certain of the parts corresponding to the main embodiment are given the same reference characters with the addition of a prefix 29,.

While the main embodiment may be utilized when the material 9is a woven textile having identical front and rear surface appearance, or where, if these are not the same, a front placket of harmonizing or contrasting appearance is permissible, the modification shown in FIG- URE 8 allows the invention to be utilized with printed cloth 209 or the like in which the front surface 211 is different from the rear surface 213.

The first front panel 212 is fabricated in a normal way like that in the main embodiment. The second front panel 214 terminates at the edge 215. Adjacent this edge the placket-forming strip 252 is connected by a row of stitches 254. This row of stitches 254 extends vertically on the finished modification shirt the full length of the front placket 210. The material in the strip 252 is lapped so that the normally front surface 211 faces the front of the garment (where exposed), as contrasted with what would be the case if the material were in one piece. The folds 232 and 236 are formed the same as the folds 32 and 36, so that in the finished modification garment the placket 210 matches the exposed surfaces of the panels 212 and 214.

I wish it to be understood that I do not consider the invention limited to the precise details of structure shown and set forth in this specification, for obvious modifications will occur to those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains:

I claim:

A garment, including a first front panel having contrasting front and rear surfaces and a first free edge portion and a plurality of spaced buttons disposed thereon in a row adjacent said edge portion; a second front panel also having contrasting front and rear surfaces and a second free edge portion; a strip of material having first and second longitudinal edge portions and contrasting front and rear surfaces matching those of said front panels; said strip having its front surface in underlying relation against the rear surface of said second panel with said first edge portion of said strip and the edge portion of said second panel being in alignment and secured to each other, said strip being folded upon itself and over said aligned edge portions and extending along the front surface of said second panel to form an outer panel and being reversely inwardly folded upon itself and interposed between said formed outer panel and said second panel to form an intermediate panel with said second longitudinal edge portion being'in alignment with said aligned edge portions; sets of aligned orifices in said outer panel, intermediate panel, and said second panel; and stitches interconnecting the edges of the material about said orifices, forming button holes with Which said buttons are attachably engageable, thereby forming a shirt front placket, the outer panel front surface of Which matches the front surfaces of said front panels, and said stitches being the sole means by which the outer panel and intermediate panel are secured in overlying relation to the second panel.

4 References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,237,818 4/1941 Grunbaum 2128 5 2,607,921 8/1952 Jones 2128 2,733,446 2/1956 Macrides 2-128 FOREIGN PATENTS 986,460 3/1965 Great Britain.

10 JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

RICHARD J. SCANLAN, Examiner. 

